Name Yearbook

Top baby names in New Jersey, 1952

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Patricia	2,133
2	Linda	1,925
3	Barbara	1,528
4	Susan	1,500
5	Mary	1,469
6	Deborah	1,262
7	Kathleen	1,253
8	Nancy	1,106
9	Karen	988
10	Diane	956
11	Carol	936
12	Donna	873
13	Christine	737
14	Sharon	652
15	Denise	618
16	Margaret	599
17	Judith	595
18	Janet	581
19	Elizabeth	557
20	Joan	554
21	Gail	538
22	Debra	536
23	Sandra	441
24	Cynthia	387
25	Pamela	382
26	Janice	367
26	Joanne	367
28	Catherine	353
29	Jane	346
30	Eileen	344
31	Joyce	339
32	Ellen	331
33	Theresa	303
34	Lynn	300
35	Cheryl	283
36	Elaine	277
37	Virginia	271
38	Marilyn	267
39	Michele	266
40	Maureen	264
41	Dorothy	255
42	Ann	254
43	Beverly	250
44	Jacqueline	242
45	Lorraine	241
46	Carolyn	240
47	Marie	237
48	Anne	235
48	Jo	235
50	Jean	231

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	3,466
2	John	3,306
3	William	2,217
4	James	2,196
5	Michael	2,126
6	Richard	2,109
7	Thomas	1,908
8	Joseph	1,732
9	David	1,540
10	Gary	1,001
11	Charles	968
12	Edward	963
13	George	801
14	Kenneth	799
15	Paul	772
16	Stephen	686
17	Donald	684
18	Dennis	668
19	Steven	667
20	Ronald	655
21	Bruce	649
22	Peter	635
23	Anthony	627
24	Frank	619
25	Mark	594
26	Daniel	579
27	Raymond	488
28	Jeffrey	483
29	Kevin	471
30	Gregory	437
31	Douglas	398
32	Lawrence	394
33	Walter	368
34	Wayne	353
35	Alan	319
36	Glenn	294
37	Arthur	283
38	Louis	277
39	Barry	271
39	Brian	271
41	Andrew	269
42	Patrick	264
43	Christopher	263
44	Frederick	260
45	Vincent	256
46	Carl	252
47	Francis	250
48	Keith	242
49	Timothy	233
50	Henry	230